La terapia della tubercolosi

The relatively few antitubercular chemio-antibiotics are analytically reviewed and updated. Consequently the most recent epidemiological aspects are described concerning the planetary map of the disease, which obliges, in some third world countries at higher incidence and prevalence, to the so-called DOT, or "directly observed therapy. Together with such aspects, the recent evolution of the (often multi-drug) resistances and the growing importance of the most reasonable therapeutic schemes of multi-drug associations, as well as the chemioprophylaxis, the extrapulmonary tuberculosis, the failures of treatment and the relapses are also treated.